Drive formatting

[Alfred]

Here is: Bancroft Ontario - The Store is Bancroft Computing, they have
them in stock. The place is smaller than a Garage, but they have most
things I'm looking for.
Alfred!
-----Original Message-----
From: William Frick <wfrick at rogers.com>
Reply-To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
<ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: Drive formatting
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:28:25 -0500

That would be great Alfred... where is 'here' ?  I am planning a trip to
Toronto soon anyway so I can scout out on College street.


Bill


Alfred wrote: 
> Originally they were made for External Hard Drives, you could make an
> IDE drive into a USB Drive, and then put it in such an "Aluminium Case".
> Then that Tyred out a bit when External Cases came into being, but I've
> seen them here and there. That is the IDE - to - SATA converters. If you
> can't find one, I'll see how much they are here, and then you can order
> one from me, or the local store here can send you one.
> 
> Alfred!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Frick <wfrick at rogers.com>
> Reply-To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
> <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: Drive formatting
> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:01:16 -0500
> 
> Thanks Alfred.... Where there is a need I guess someone will fill it ! I 
> will have to search these little wonders out. I wasn't having any 
> success partitioning/formatting on a USB Port.
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
>  Alfred wrote:
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> > There are little devices that can plug into the Connector strip of an
> > IDE drive that make the drive into a SATA DRIVE. This way you just put
> > that converted drive into your SATA Supported Confuser case, and now you
> > don't need to format it through a USB Port. There are even Little
> > devices that plug into the Connector strip of an IDE Drive, that can
> > make it into a USB DRIVE, these things cost about $9.00 -$15.00 each.
> > This is a hardware thing, that works in Winders, if Winders works???,
> > and it works in Linux, and other OS from else where in the Galaxy. 
> > 
> > Alfred!
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: William Frick <wfrick at rogers.com>
> > Reply-To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
> > <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> > To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> > Subject: Drive formatting
> > Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:04:22 -0500
> > 
> > Hi all:
> > 
> > I have recently upgraded to a newer machine that has only SATA ports and 
> > I have a number of IDE drives that are still quite useful in capacity. I 
> > bought an external drive case to use them through the USB port. Rather 
> > than reconstruct an old machine, is there a way to partition and format 
> > through the USB port ? I've looked through various system menus but no 
> > options are apparent. Suggestions ?
> > 
> > 
> > Bill
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